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unnoticed, important information in the Arkansas Benchmark E

by James Michael Howard

Aug 5, 2003

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The "Arkansas Benchmark Exams" contain an important finding
which has gone unnoticed. When math and literacy data are
plotted, using 4th-grade and 8th-grade data, essentially
every line declines for every district. This may be
evidence the problem is in our children, not a result of
disparate teaching methods and finances. (Schools have
never been able to produce this kind of duplication, even
under court order.) The scores are higher before puberty,
fall during puberty, and continue to fall following
puberty. I suggest this is part of the "secular trend," the
increase in size and earlier puberty in our children.

In the early 90’s, I produced an explanation for this
decline: "Simple Explanation for Out-of-Hand Kids,"
Northwest Arkansas Times, "Opinion," April 15, 1993. I
suggest increasing testosterone participates in human
evolution (Rivista di Biologia / Biology Forum 2001; 94:
345-362). P...See More

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